While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
CHINUA ACHEBEThe sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.
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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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I am against people reaping where they have not sown. But we have a saying that if you want to eat a toad you should look for a fat and juicy one.
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When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.
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When we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.
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Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
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Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.
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The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.
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Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.
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We do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck.
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If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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You do not know me,’ said Tortoise. ‘I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.
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Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit — in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.
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I think not just Nigeria but I think the whole of Africa has to turn back to the rural areas and that’s where the majority of the citizens are and that’s where the engine of of development has to be found.
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Nobody can teach me who I am.
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